The Voracious Eye.

The article reports on the production of optical scanners by Farrington Manufacturing Co., an old-line display box and credit-card maker in Needham Heights, Massachusetts. It states that Farrington is the only U.S. company with scanners in commercial operation. It mentions that insurance companies have ordered optical scanners to solve their billing paperwork problems and its scanners range from a simple type which reads only numbers to sophisticated bookworms that reads whole pages at a time.